In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...

The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is being tested in just over half of the scheduled Grapefruit and Cactus ...

Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever ...

One big change for the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training experience this year is the arrival of an automated ball-strike ...

The robot ump’s replay showed that it was low. So low that, had it been called a strike, someone would have written that the ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Justin Verlander was on a minor-league rehab assignment when he got his first taste of the automated ball ...

MLB is giving players and managers a taste of the automated ball-strike system as the league weighs whether to fully implement it.

The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.

Major League Baseball is experimenting with the ABS challenge system during spring training in 2025, but there are currently ...

The ABS challenge system is being tested this spring as MLB ponders a wider plunge. But it could erase pitch framing, one of ...

The Chicago White Sox are getting a close look at the ABS system, which allows players to challenge an umpire’s ball-strike calls, this spring.

So you keep the human element still with the umpire. (And) you’re just trying to get rid of the egregious calls.” I listened to him argue that pitchers should still get a strike called when ...